18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'04) - Workshop 3
Real-Time Configuration Code Decompression for Dynamic FPGA Self-Reconfiguration
Santa Fe, New Mexico
April 26-April 30
ISBN: 0-7695-2132-0
Xilinx Virtex FPGAs have the possibility of dynamical partial run-time reconfiguration. If a system uses this feature with many different configuration bitstreams for substitution of parts in reconfiguration memory, the amout of neccesary memory increases. The sum of memory amout which has to be provided for the configuration data is not negligible. This fact suggests the investigation of compressing data before they are stored in memory modules of a system.The compressed bitstream data has to be decrompressed before transferring it to the FPGA. This paper shows an approach of compressing configuration data at design time and decompressing them with a hardware module implemented on FPGA while run-time.
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Keywords: Compression, Decompression, Virtex
Citation:
Michael Huebner, Michael Ullmann, Florian Weissel, Juergen Becker, "Real-Time Configuration Code Decompression for Dynamic FPGA Self-Reconfiguration," ipdps, vol. 4, pp.138b, 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'04) - Workshop 3, 2004